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forrestcupp
February 29th, 2012, 04:28 PM
Having only recently come back to Ubuntu from Win7, I just realized that the Ubuntu Software Center doesn't include stuff from PPAs because everything in there has to be approved. Wow! I guess that makes the Software Center pretty useless to me, especially for looking up stuff from PlayDeb.

I guess I'll just use Synaptic. It's too bad. The Software Center looks pretty sharp.
Dry Lips
February 29th, 2012, 04:56 PM
So... It has come to this.
user1397
February 29th, 2012, 05:13 PM
I try to use as few ppa's as possible. they're not supposed to be the norm, rather the exception.

right now i'm on lucid, but i only have the libreoffice and google talk/earth ppa's.
Dry Lips
February 29th, 2012, 05:59 PM
I think there ought to be made a sticky of essential ppa's and how to add them. ppa's are important, especially for people who run LTS versions of Ubuntu.
ikt
February 29th, 2012, 06:03 PM
Having only recently come back to Ubuntu from Win7, I just realized that the Ubuntu Software Center doesn't include stuff from PPAs because everything in there has to be approved. Wow! I guess that makes the Software Center pretty useless to me, especially for looking up stuff from PlayDeb.

I guess I'll just use Synaptic. It's too bad. The Software Center looks pretty sharp.

Since when?

http://ikt.id.au/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/ppas.png

And clicking on them shows me the packages in the PPAs.

So...?
forrestcupp
February 29th, 2012, 06:25 PM
Since when?

http://ikt.id.au/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/ppas.png

And clicking on them shows me the packages in the PPAs.

So...?

Sweet. That's why we have the forums. So we can learn things. I did a search for something in All Software, and it didn't show up. But when I clicked that down arrow and chose GetDeb, it showed up in the search. Too bad everything doesn't show up in an "All Software" search.

Thanks for pointing that out.